On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 01:47:57PM -0000, Gerrard Geldenhuis wrote: > I did report it as a bug via Redhat support. I have ended up pasting the > mailinglist response in the support ticket after a week of no positive > response. Sorry for that: If you send me the ticket number privately I'll see that it's progressed. > Would you aggree that a short note about allowable names should be added > to man lvm? If yes, then I don't mind creating a patch. Here's a current summary of the rules (as added to bug 430907). The characters allowed in VG and LV names are: a-z A-Z 0-9 + _ . - Neither a VG nor an LV can begin with a hyphen. There are also various reserved names. A VG cannot be called anything that appears in 'ls /dev' at the time it is created (including '.' and '..' of course). An LV can also not be called '.' or '..'. A new LV cannot begin with the strings 'snapshot' or 'pvmove'. It may not contain the strings '_mlog' or '_mimage'. Additional reserved strings are likely to be added over time. Pre-existing LVs may be found with these names, and the tools will normally cope adequately. (Internally-generated LVs do use these reserved names - that's why they are reserved.) Alasdair -- agk@redhat.com _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
